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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How Historically Accurate is Skyrim? Part 4 • Final Fantasy 3. Not 6, Actually 3! – Part 1, Part 2 • Anime you might have missed: Chihayafuru • A Quick Look at Hyrule Warriors’ Fierce Deity Link • No Respect: An Ode to Under-Loved Enemies TAY Classic—TAY…

18 Pop Culture Billionaires And How Evil They Are

Only one guy is a better person than Bruce Wayne, and even he’s a bit of an outsider. Here’s the full chart below, compiled by the fine folks at Dorkly, with all kinds of billionaires, their wealth and how good or evil they are compared to each other. Everything looks fine, but I’m not really…

The Origins of BioShock’s Vintage Art

We all know the Circus of Values clown. We’ve all bought ammo, EVE hypos and health kits “from him” dozens of times. But did you know that he originally sold melons? While the fact that some of the BioShock series’ period artwork appears to have been inspired by real-world vintage advertisements was already known (shown…

Final Fantasy Explorers Is Crystal Chronicles Meets Monster Hunter

It’s time to team up and go hunt some of Final Fantasy‘s most iconic creatures. Good – Iconic Monsters There’s not a lot of plot to Final Fantasy Explorers. You make a character, come to the one town on a remote island, and receive quests from its inhabitants. The island itself is a macrocosm of…

XCOM: The Board Game Works – You, Your Friends and a Table vs the UFOs

In real life Toby’s a database guy for Goldman Sachs. Tonight, he’s XCOM’s Chief Scientist and he’s spending worryingly large amounts of our money. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK As Commander, I should be restraining his spending – after all, we’ll need that money to pay for Skyranger and Interceptor flights, to hire…

Game About Building Ikea Furniture Is Tough To Finish

It’s one of life’s toughest challenges. Now it’s one of video games’ toughest challenges. Höme Improvisåtion is a game about building Ikea furniture. You twist, pivot and hope to God that the thing with the peg is going in the right hole before you go sticking any more shelves on it. Coffee tables look easy…

I Like That The Witcher 3 Treats Me Like an Adult

Like Nathan, I played a good four or five hours of The Witcher 3 the other week, and like him, I’ve been oddly preoccupied by it ever since. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Its rhythm of exploration was very absorbing, alternating between calm periods of admiring the countryside on horseback and sudden bursts…

How Thor Flies, According to Science

Of all the major superheroes who can defy the laws of gravity, Thor’s mode of flight seems like one of the most unlikely: spinning his magic hammer Mjolnir around and holding on after flinging it. Is there any way that would actually work? Science actually says yes. Sure, he commands the wind and the storm…

The Hidden Meaning Behind the Name of One Pokémon Region

Pokémon’s current series director Junichi Masuda has been working at Game Freak on the Pokémon series since the original Ruby and Sapphire, the source material for the two newest games, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Back then, he was what’s known as a “planner” in Japanese game companies:…

Skyrim Mod Lets You Marry Creepy Wooden People

I do not like the implications of Skyrim‘s craftable followers/NPCs mod. Not one bit. You can create life—give birth to fully formed adult wooden children—and then marry them if you so please. I can’t believe I even need to say this, but don’t marry your wooden children, people. OK, aside from the unholy matrimony, this…